Carla Heine grew up in the town of Sonoma, California, the spiritual heart of Sonoma’s Wine Country. Out of 15 rooms the historic monument that was Carla’s family home for almost 40 years had eight ghosts and a vortex.

At the University of Colorado Carla Heine majored in pre-med biology, and pledged Kappa Alpha Theta, the first fraternity to accept women students as members. Her interest in cultural anthropology has been life-long.

KSVY 91.3FM has aired Carla’s radio show “Strange Wine – History and the Paranormal in the Valley of the Moon” from 11:00pm to midnight every Saturday night, for over five years. Pod casts are available at: www.ksvy.org

NBC's national show "In Wine Country" toured Sonoma with Carla Heine as a featured guest. To see the Pod cast, go to www.inwinecountry.com, and enter: "Is Sonoma Haunted".

Author of "Sonoma Ghosts”, Carla Heine's Sonoma trilogy contains first-hand accounts of Sonoma's secret past, and information gathered from the Victorian men and women who ran the isolated town of Sonoma with fists of iron in kid-skin gloves from the 1880's until the 1970's.

From behind heavy silver tea sets, in the salons of Sonoma's most powerful citizens, Carla Heine heard their stories every Sunday at high tea from 1966 to 1976.

When the men retired to the drawing rooms in their evening clothes for cigars and brandy, the generational Chinese servants refreshed the tea and watercress sandwiches. Carla was hardly seen and never heard, and as she continued to "pour out" these remarkable women discussed the century-old stories of Sonoma's hidden history.

It is said that houses are not haunted, but that people are haunted. As you read about Sonoma's haunted past, it will be up to you to decide if that is true, or not. And you may discover, as Carla Heine discovered, that not only a house, or a person can be haunted, but an entire town can be haunted.

Carla Heine lives with her retired husband, John Mirsberger, a former Marine from New York City, on Blue Wing Drive. Mr. and Mrs. Mirsberger reside just south of The Sonoma Mountain Cemetery. They have very quiet neighbors, and a good dog named Jake.